Hi!

I'm working on a documentary and I would like to use some clips from this fantastic footage. Thing is, can someone assure me 100% this is public domain? Thank you.

Compare this movie to "Duck and Cover" (1951) and contrast reality with propaganda. Children were still being shown "Duck and Cover" in the 1960's and expected not to question the effectiveness of these "protective measures"! It's hard to imagine that people could remain ignorant of such important truths for so long. "The Atom Strikes!" would have been more appropriate educational material, in my opinion, but obviously too real for the American public at the time. Thank goodness for the internet and access to information.

Excellent primary source document of destruction from the viewpoint of the victors. Compare this version with the more subjective and shorter edited version "A Tale of Two Cities" to see how musical score and careful selection and arrangement of images can change the overall message. NOte, too, the interview with the priest, when asked to comment on the use of the atomic bomb. He reads from a prepared statement and is not, at least to this viewer, altogether convincing in his support of the bomb's use. But then he was in the presence of the occupiers. And likely still in shock. I wonder what he might have said after a year or five or ten.